Aerospace Mfg Engineer, Amazon Leo

Amazon • Kirkland, WA

3d • Onsite

About The Position

Project Kuiper is Amazon’s low Earth orbit satellite broadband network. Its mission is to deliver fast, reliable internet to customers and communities around the world, and we’ve designed the system with the capacity, flexibility, and performance to serve a wide range of customers, from individual households to schools, hospitals, businesses, government agencies, and other organizations operating in locations without reliable connectivity.

This is a broad scoped position providing manufacturing engineering ownership of multiple mechanisms and assemblies for the project Kuiper satellite program. You will be supporting new satellite mechanisms early in the production phase, providing critical design for manufacturability input and supporting testing of these assemblies, while developing and implementing the plan to move from design/test into build/production.

Requirements

• 4+ years of electrical or mechanical engineering experience
• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, or an equivalent field
• 3+ years of implementing metric-based strategies utilizing continuous improvement concepts, or 2+ years of implementing metric-based strategies utilizing continuous improvement concepts experience
• 3+ years of experience developing and building space mechanical assemblies (or 5+ years of experience with space hardware build and development or 7+ years of experience in design and manufacturing)
• 3+ years of experience in development and implementation of operations control documentation processes.
• Must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident (i.e., current Green Card holder), or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum.

Nice To Haves

• 7+ years of experience in spacecraft or spacecraft hardware production environment
• Experience with mechanisms and mechanical assemblies, including troubleshooting and root cause analysis of testing, processing, and assembly failures
• Successful in taking complicated build and design requirements and developing them into clear and concise build and test instructions and implementing appropriate and useful quality standards and procedures
• Cross-organizational communication – comfortable evangelizing ideas and concerns clearly and persuasively, in both verbal and written forms.
• Experience in the design of complex mechanical products and equipment at volume

Responsibilities

• Design space hardware production processes and production lines
• Experience with equipment design, procurement, installation, and qualification
• Work with supply chain partners to manage critical vendors
• Material flow planning and manufacturing process definition with minimal existing definition
• Ability to support space hardware testing, including tooling design and data analysis
• Assembly, Integration, and Test takt time & cost optimization planning
• Design for Manufacturability review and sign off for design release
• Own test campaigns to validate manufacturing processes for robustness, yield, and reliability scenarios.
• Strive to produce assemblies for the lowest possible cost and highest possible quality.
• Root causing problems that occur for the assembly to keep builds on schedule while also working on efficiency gains through tooling, automation, or design and process changes.

Benefits

• health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage)
• 401(k) matching
• paid time off
• parental leave
• sign-on payments
• restricted stock units (RSUs)

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior